Above: the Caribbean Court of Justice’s headquarters in Trinidad
By the Caribbean Journal staff
The Caribbean Court of Justice has a new member.
The regional court’s Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission has appointed Maureen Rajnauth-Lee as the tribunal’s newest judge.
Rajnauth-Lee was selected from among applicants from the Caribbean, North America and Eastern Europe.
A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Rajnauth-Lee is a Justice of Appeal of the Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago.
She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies and of the Hugh Wooding Law School.
“Judges appointed to the CCJ are evaluated on the basis of wide- ranging criteria that include experience, high moral character, intellectual and analytical ability, sound judgment, integrity and an understanding of people and society,” the court said in a statement.